{"id":20783,"date":"2023-03-27T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=20783"},"modified":"2023-03-27T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:01:06","slug":"working-hard-isnt-a-cure-all-for-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/working-hard-isnt-a-cure-all-for-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Hard Isn’t a Cure-All for Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Scales Begin to Tip Against Homeless People as Children in Elementary Schools<\/h2>\n

National Homelessness Law Center Board Member Khadijah Williams Offers New Approach to Education in IP Exclusive Interview Below<\/em><\/h3>\n

The dehumanization of homeless individuals is a significant and abhorrent problem in our society. Most people believe you can only become homeless by being lazy and that lazy people don’t deserve to be treated as humans. People will give money to certain charities and fight for specific positive change in the world, but won’t give money to a panhandler. And it’s not just because they think the panhandler will use the money on drugs and alcohol. There is a genuine belief that homeless individuals are simply unworthy of help.<\/span><\/p>\n

First of all, being lazy doesn’t make you a bad person. EVERYONE deserves a home and enough money to support themselves. Secondly,\u00a0<\/span>homeless people are not lazy<\/span><\/a>. Many homeless people work multiple jobs. As Ahmed Ali, an advocate for homeless people,\u00a0<\/span>recently tweeted<\/span><\/a>: “No one hustles harder or is more industrious than poor folks trying to survive a system that actively tries to harm them daily.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Poor folks are not lazy, they are exhausted. No one hustles harder or is more industrious than poor folks trying to survive a system that actively tries to harm them daily.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ahmed Ali (@MrAhmednurAli) December 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n